Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 year banking career, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, and other major industry publications. The American Bankers Association (ABA) published Barnewall’s Profitable Private Banking: the Complete Blueprint, in 1987. She taught private banking at Colorado University for the ABA and trained private bankers in Singapore.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

AMERICAN MATRIX: HOW WE LOST OUR CONSTITUTION, Part I

By Marilyn M. Barnewall

News With Views

January 15, 2015

Do you want your Constitutional
Republic back?If so, this article provides you with
information that will help you achieve that objective.It won't come through Constitutional Conventions,
Conventions of the States, or memorizing the Constitution and going to court
with constitutional arguments in a court system the jurisdiction for which
functions under the Uniform Commercial Code and Maritime Law.

Your Constitutions (national and state) have been put in
hibernation and are brought out like the good silver... only when needed to
make an impression or to be used in self defense for crimes committed against
the people by those in government who are supposed to serve us.

Some questions for you:

1.Are you
aware that the United States
is incorporated?No, this article isn’t
about Strawmen or your name being in CAPITAL letters on all legal documents
like your birth certificate, driver’s license, Social Security Card, Passport,
etc.There is the United States of America
and there is the United States of America, Inc.There is a good reason for what happened and it does not involve the
bankruptcy of this nation.

2.Are you
aware that the state in which you live is incorporated? All 50 states are
incorporated.Read on and I’ll provide
you with absolute evidence… not opinion, but evidence.

3.Are you
aware that your county is incorporated?

4.Are you
aware that your city (or township) is incorporated?(Most of us are aware that cities are incorporated -- signs at the city's limits usually tell us so.)

5.Are you
aware that most departments within your city and county are incorporated?Yes, I mean the Sheriff’s Department, the
Police Department, the City and County and State Courts (even your State
Supreme Court), the Public Library, the Public Works Department, the Department
of Education and the County Clerk?Almost every department in your city and county is incorporated.I must admit, this disclosure surprised me
more than the others.Even more
interesting, most people who staff these departments – including county
commissioners, sheriffs, librarians, police chiefs, and other department heads
– appear, as I was, unaware of the corporate status of their “departments.”

Here's a link to my County Sheriff's office.Notice that it is registered as a
"privately held company." The name listed, Stan Hilkey, was the
Sheriff of Mesa County at the time I downloaded the information a couple of
months ago.Look your own county Sheriff
up on Manta.com and see if your law enforcement is incorporated.My county courts are also incorporated.Are yours?To prove it's not just a Colorado
thing, here's a link
to Alabama's courts as listed at Manta.com.Look yours up… my bet is that they are also incorporated.

6.Are
you aware that corporations are run under the jurisdiction of Statutory Law,
not Constitutional or Common Law?Are you aware that Articles of Incorporation based on the policies and regulations
in place in all 50 States are governed by the Uniform Commercial Code and/or
Maritime Law which are the basis of Statutory Law?

In other words, when wearing their corporate hats (which is
whenever it is to their advantage to do so), our federal, state, county, and
city governments and the departments contained within them must comply with the
policies of the Uniform Commercial Code, not with the Constitution of the
United States.The courts, too, are
incorporated.No wonder we see so little
Constitutional or Common Law in our courts!No wonder administrative law judges can make the law up as a trial
proceeds (or so it appears to those thinking the jurisdiction under which courts
function is Constitutional or Common Law)!

This information should answer the questions of many
Americans who wander around shaking their heads trying to figure out why our
courts are making the insane, unconstitutional decisions that spew out of them
like the Devil’s bad breath.The Courts
are incorporated and comply with the requirements of Statutory Law based on the
policies and procedures dictated by the Uniform Commercial Code or Maritime Law,
not the United States Constitution or your State's Constitution.

People look at their small town police departments being
equipped as if they are General Patton powering his way through Germany
and wonder why Humvees and SWAT teams are needed to protect them.Who – or what – are they really protecting?

And it goes beyond our police departments and sheriffs’
offices to our courts and schools and property taxes... and everything else.

You need to know whether what I’m saying is true or
false.Go to Manta.com and look up your
own state, county and city.Especially
look at the departments within your city and county… your fire, sheriff and
police departments, your county clerk, the State and County Courts, etc.

Why is this information critical if we are to understand why
America
is in many cases functioning in a way designed to destroy Her?Why is it “dangerous” information?

The answer is direct and simple:CORPORATIONS (INCLUDING GOVERNMENT
CORPORATIONS) DO NOT FUNCTION UNDER A CONSTITUTION.THEY FUNCTION UNDER ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO BUSINESS LAWS OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE AND MARITIME
LAW, NOT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, CORPORATIONS CAN BE
DISSOLVED!THAT IS THE BIGGEST DANGER OF
THIS INFORMATION.THE CORPORATE
STRUCTURE THEY HAVE BUILT TO REMOVE OUR ACCESS TO CONSTITUTIONAL AND COMMON LAW
IN OUR COURTS CAN, LIKE ANY CORPORATION, BE DISSOLVED.IT IS, PERHAPS, THEIR ACHILLES HEEL – their
greatest weakness!We, the People, CAN DISSOLVE THEM!

The corporations
cannot be dissolved by the government employees who work for them; they must be
dissolved by the people.How?County by county.

These corporations were imposed from the top down and the
only way to disassemble them is from the bottom up.Carry a petition.Get the required number of signatures and get
it on your county ballot next election.The initiative should say something like "No government entity in
_____ County shall incorporate or be incorporated.All government agencies, divisions and
departments must function under the legal jurisdiction of the Constitution of
the State of _____ and be subject to the limits imposed on government by the
Constitution of the United
States and the State of _______."I’m not a lawyer and I’m sure you can get a
stronger statement from a trusted attorney at law.

As I will point out in Part II of this article, liberty is
not free and if you want your constitutional rights restored, it will require
some long-term planning and changes in the way county costs are defined and
financed… but it can be done!If you
would rather our cost of liberty and constitutional rights be paid via
budgeting and taxation instead of young men and women being unnecessarily
killed and maimed in unlawful, unconstitutional wars, you will help dissolve
the government corporations that help make such tragedies possible.

I must admit, I am surprised this material has been around
as long as it has and none of the many lawyers who have been exposed to it had
a light go off in their heads saying "Corporations do not function under
Constitutional Law which is why Americans are being abused by their courts --
and corporations can be dissolved, SO LET'S DISSOLVE THEM!."

You can logically assume that if your city/township, county,
state, and federal governments are incorporated, they do not function under the
aegis (protection) of a Constitution of any kind.They function under the rules and regulations
of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).All
businesses, including corporations, function under the jurisdiction of the
UCC.The law and how we lost the
jurisdictional protection of Common and Constitutional law is the topic of Part
II of this article.

Do you now understand why your courts and law enforcement
officials do not act in accordance with the limits placed on government by the
United States Constitution – or, even more important, your State’s
Constitution?

In the past month, I’ve been to two meetings about
jurisdictional law given by experts on Constitutional law.Both were very good… both speakers were quick
to point out the rights God grants each of us and the limits on government guaranteed
under the Constitution.Neither realized
that the constitutional rights of the people are being badly abused because of the
corporate status of federal, state, county, city governments and most of the
departments that function under those entities and thus do not answer to Federal
and State Constitutions.Neither speaker
realized that corporations are under the jurisdiction of Statutory or business
law – the Uniform Commercial Code/Maritime Law.It raises a difficult question for constitutional experts:If the various governments, including our
courts, function under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Commercial Code rather
than the Constitution, how important is a Constitution that has been hi-jacked?

Before moving on to Part II of this article which will
explain the kinds of jurisdictional law being practiced in American courts, I
want to provide you what I promised.Evidence.

It’s time to stop speculating about issues, wondering (what
a waste of time) if this crisis or that one is a false flag.“They” rely on chaos to keep you off balance
because only by keeping you off balance can they take their next unlawful step designed
to eliminate the asset singly responsible for preventing socialism or communism
in America’s capitalist economy:The
middle class.They throw one issue after
another at you… from amnesty to police brutality; from shopping center
shootings to elementary school shootings to shootings of police officers
sitting innocently in their car.They
take you from one false flag to another.They throw one war after another at you… or threaten a new war.As the manipulation of gold was used to cause
the Great Depression of the early 1900's, they use the new gold – oil – to manipulate
this even Greater Depression.

They can call it a recession all they want, but the only
reason people are not standing in food lines as they did in the 1930s is food
stamps.They called the job creation
programs of the Great Depression the Work(s) Progress Administration (WPA).In the
30s, cities all over the country got new parks and recreation facilities,
bridges were built as were schools and highways… the work of the WPA.It provided jobs for the unemployed.For this current Greater Depression it is
called “shovel ready jobs.”

When they hire a new government employee, it depletes the
tax base rather than adding to it, so new government hires cannot be
categorized as “new jobs” produced by the economy. But the Obama Administration
needs to look like it is doing SOMETHING right, so they "create" new
jobs by funding them via private sector contractor work projects.Then they can be counted as new jobs… just as
Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with WPA jobs – but government, not a thriving
free marketplace, is paying for these “new jobs.”Regardless of stock market ups and downs, the
marketplace is not thriving.It is being
manipulated.

I believe the core problem centers on the incorporation of
every federal, state, and county and all of the departments within each and the
resulting system that had to be built to support itself.Logic tells me that if we get rid of the
corporations, we remove their ability to manipulate our courts and all
government offices with no personal accountability.I believe if we take action while we still
can, we can retrieve our nation from what the international central banking
system has thrown in the trash bin of history without first ensuring the corpse
is dead.

If I’m correct, this is not only the most important article
I’ve ever written for any news publication, it is also one of the most
important articles you will ever read.It’s also the most dangerous… for me, at least – and for Paul Walter, the
publisher of News With Views.Why is it dangerous?Because it offers a solution to the conundrum
(unsolvable puzzle) “they” have created.Over a long period of time (it began in the late 1800s), “they” created
the conundrum to give them sufficient time to globally enslave all but the
elitists. The same techniques if not the same programs are being used around
the world.The objective? Global
government composed of oligarchies (an elite class and a labor class – no
middle class) worldwide.

Manta.com is a Web site that provides corporate
information.It costs a few hundred dollars
to be a member of Dunn & Bradstreet – and when I owned my own company, I
was a member.I no longer am.So, I use Manta.com because it’s free.Manta (a subsidiary of Dunn & Bradstreet, I believe) provides the names of about 40 million
for-profit private companies – including government.

If you look at the bottom of the Manta form, you’ll see that
Democrat Governor Hickenlooper is referenced as Colorado’s CEO rather than the State’s
Governor.Why?Just as corporations do not run on
Constitutional law, neither do corporations have Governors.They have Chief Executive Officers.Or, they have Managers… check out
California’s Governor, Jerry Brown.Manta.com lists him as California’s
“Manager” and California is “A privately held
company in Sacramento, CA.”

Here’s more evidence of the incorporation of America’s
sovereign states and their cities and counties.

Wisconsin Governor Scott
Walker is, like Hickenlooper, listed as that state’s Chief
Executive Officer.On the Walker link to Wisconsin's
Washington, D.C.
Executive Office (why do Governors need offices in D.C.? – because their state
is incorporated there and a corporation needs an office in the location of
incorporation), scroll down and look at the Washington, D.C. Executive
Office for the State of New York.Wisconsin
and New York
are on the same page. This particular
link tells you that the State of New York is incorporated in the District of
Columbia and that Derek Douglas is the Manager of the Washington, D.C.
office, not the Governor.I researched Douglas, wondering why he is listed as the Washington,
D.C.-based New York Governor’s Office Manager.I found a Press Release from the White House stating that Derek Douglas
was an urban affairs special assistant to the President of the United States.

I said our cities and counties have been incorporated.Here is the Manta.com listing
for the City of Birmingham, Alabama.State of Incorporation is Alabama… the city IS
incorporated.Most of us know that
cities are incorporated.Most of us did
not know that our counties are incorporated and that almost every department
and division within our incorporated cities and counties are incorporated,
too.

For many years, people have talked about government
Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) and have tried to find where the
CAFR funds are hidden.Where in the
world could “they” be hiding them?The
federal, state, county and city corporations would be a good guess.No one knows about them.

Did I mention that each of these entities has two
identities?There is, for example, the
State of Colorado – and there is the State of Colorado, Inc.There is a County of Denver
– and there is a Denver County, Inc., etc.They cannot drop the Constitutional identity because if they do, they
lose “We, the People…” who didn’t volunteer to be part of their corporation.
Thus, it appears every government in the country, no matter how large or how small, has dual
identities, one incorporated and one unincorporated.

Here are some Manta.com links you can use to start doing
your own research.When you find your
Sheriff’s Department is incorporated, when you find your local Courts are
incorporated, you might just want to start carrying a petition to get
signatures demanding a vote of the people to dissolve all government
corporations within your county and demand that they function under your State
Constitution rather than under Statutory Jurisdiction which offers citizens no
Constitutional protections from government usurpation of the power of
individual citizens.It will surprise
only a few to learn in Part II of this article that it all began with the
Federal Reserve System.

Or you can contact any of the 374 veterans organizations listed
as companies by the Federal Government.Now we know how they could withhold medical benefits from our
veterans.We know why no one who
participated in withholding the medical services from dying men and women
entitled to those services was terminated from government payrolls:They were wearing their corporate hats and our veterans were functioning under Constitutional protections -- which are non-existent when dealing with corporations.

Here are links to some Manta.com veterans’ listings (you
usually have to scroll to the bottom of the page to get what you want… not all
listings about veterans involve government agencies like the Veterans Administration;
Manta lists private companies that deal with veterans, too).

Dunn & Bradstreet is the official organization that
registers and keeps track of American business credit ratings.They assign DUNS code numbers so corporate
credit ratings can be found by lenders or other creditors when companies apply
for credit.

Here is a link to
the Duns numbersassigned to some
federal government offices. After the federal government listings, every state
and its largest population center listing DUNS data is provided. Why do all of these agencies need an independent credit reporting number? They are part of the federal government, aren't they? The only reason IRS or the Veterans Administration or the Department of Indian Affairs would need independent DUNS numbers assigned to them is if they are independent agencies (like corporations) functioning independently of the federal government.

The DUNS
numbers are not the result of my own research -- the Manta.com material is data
I have been personally researching since last summer.The DUNS numbers have been listed on the
Internet since February 2013, but I have been unable to find the person who did
all of this work.I will say the Louisiana and Tennessee
numbers appear incorrect (all have 9 numbers assigned except these two).As a non Dunn & Bradstreet member, I have
no way to go to the D&B site and verify them but hope they will be helpful
to you.

This list creates a lot of interesting questions.Looking at the above-linked list of departments
within the U.S. Government, does it give you any insight to how “they” get away
with the VA scandal, Fast and Furious guns across the border (the Attorney General's office has its own DUNS number), Benghazi (the State Department has its own DUNS number), the IRS (has its own DUNS number) discrimination against
conservative groups applying for tax exempt status?

Relative to the law, corporations are governed by the
Uniform Commercial Code (or the Law of the Seas – sometimes called Maritime
Law).They have no obligation to protect
anyone’s Constitutional rights when functioning under their corporate hats –
and they keep the Constitutional hat available in case they get caught and need
to declare their Constitutional rights to certain protections – like Lois
Lerner’s use of the Fifth Amendment when she testified before Congress. Perhaps
that explains the smirk on her face during that proceeding?

Remember the controversy about Lerner’s appearance before
the Senate Committee before which she testified?“She can’t make a statement pronouncing her
innocence and then declare her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering
questions!That’s against the law!”That’s what every constitutional law expert
said… and had she been functioning under the Constitution, they would have been
correct

When she made her statement, she was wearing her corporate
hat.When she declared her rights under
the Constitution, she put on her constitutional hat.It is the best possible example I can give
you about why they need to maintain their rights under BOTH the Constitution
and the Corporations for which they work.The Constitution gives them protections from personal liability they
would not otherwise have.

Part II of this article will explain how America’s laws morphed from
Constitutional to Statutory law.It
involves debt (and explains why Congress is so adamantly tied to ever
increasing and ongoing debt).

About Me

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. Barnewall taught private banking at Colorado University and has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction and one biography.
Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and has written editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, etc. She has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America (2005-10), Who's Who of American Women (2006-10), Who's Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who's Who in the World (2008).